New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned for questioning the wife and mother of former Karnataka minister and veteran Congress leader DK Shivakumar in a money laundering case against the Congress leader. A senior ED official told the media on Monday that "we have issued summons to more than 50 people for questioning in connection with the case. We have summoned Shivakumar's wife and her mother to New Delhi on October 17."

The ED has earlier questioned Shivkumar's daughter Aishwarya, her brother and MP DK Suresh and Belagavi Rural's MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar. The officer said that after getting some evidence about the economic transaction, there was a need to send the summons to Shivkumar's mother and wife, while many others are being questioned for the last one month. Shivkumar has been in jail for a month after being arrested by the ED on September 3 in the case, after which summonses have been sent.

Shivkumar is currently in judicial custody. He has been the target of the ED and the Income Tax Department since the 2016 demonetisation. On August 2, 2017, cash of Rs 8.83 crore was seized in the Income Tax Department's raid on his apartment in New Delhi. After this, the Income Tax Department had filed a case against the Congress leader and his four colleagues under sections 277 and 278 of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

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